http://stvor.blogsome.com When you least expect it ... Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:28:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en HOWTO recover deleted files on an ext3 file system by Carlo Wood via LWN quote: The tool that I wrote assumes a spike of recently deleted files (shortly before the last unmount). It does NOT deal with a corrupted file system, only with accidently but cleanly deleted files. Tool doesn’t recover ... http://stvor.blogsome.com/2008/03/27/link-recover-deleted-files-on-ext3/ http://cafe.elharo.com/programming/the-ten-commandments-of-unicode/ by Elliotte Rusty Harold via Ryan Tomayako http://stvor.blogsome.com/2008/03/22/link-the-ten-commandments-of-unicode/ Nice built in way to debug http connections problems in your python code. This is nothing new, just for my reference, so I don’t have to hunt it down every time I need it. import httplib import urllib2 # For urllib it's enough to do ... http://stvor.blogsome.com/2008/03/19/debugging-python-httpconection-recipe/ Here is original from Joel: Martian Headsets and Mark Pilgrim’s Translation From MS-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Joel Spolsky’s “Martin Headsets” My personal favourite: ” Or maybe they won’t… in which case, IE is going to lose a lot of market share.” ... http://stvor.blogsome.com/2008/03/18/mark-pilgrim-rips-apart-joel-spolskys-ie8-standards-mode-appology/ Why would you want to change your MAC ? Several reasons: Some ISP’s lock their cable/ADSL modems to single MAC address ( usually your router), if for some reason you need to connect some other machine to that modem you need to change MAC address on that machine. Security and privacy. Each ethernet and WiFi ... http://stvor.blogsome.com/2008/03/05/howto-change-mac-adress-in-ubuntu/ From Digg: Nmap has undergone many substantial changes since the last major release (3.50 in February 2004) and they recommend that all current users upgrade. The changelog is huge. My personal favorite is revriten scanning engine, not only is it faster but its also less memory hungry (I have a lot of ... http://stvor.blogsome.com/2006/02/11/nmap-40-released/ Seems like Google From TheRegister Mailbag Lester, Possibly the most frightening thing I have ever seen on this web of ours: Search Tiananmen from Google Images: http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen Search Tiananmen from Google China: http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen ... http://stvor.blogsome.com/2006/02/08/google-do-no-evil-china-style/ Via Digg:Wine 0.9.5 leads Windows XP in 69 out of 147 tests from various benchmarks. Some of the tests that Wine won were 3D (such as 3DMark), while others were Windows API tests (such as PC Mark). Well it seems that besides some graphic code, wine is chathching up or ... http://stvor.blogsome.com/2006/01/21/wine-beats-windows-in-benchmarks-via-digg/ Although an older article, this is good info for any computer user. How much do magnets really fry data? Does unplugging a USB cable too fast really cause damage? Read more here at this PC World article.read more | digg story http://stvor.blogsome.com/2006/01/21/the-biggest-pc-myths-via-digg/ The Buzzword Firing Squad Copia has a list of often missused(and milssunderstood) words. My favortie is: “Yes, that’s very nice and all, but does it scale?” !*&%#@@$!!! and other stupid questions that people who wear ties like to ask. http://stvor.blogsome.com/2005/12/28/the-buzzword-firing-squad/